Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 729 486 659
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.82% 13.97% 10.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 49.90% 52.48% 42.27%
Number of salaries quoted 406 370 571
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -3.03% -1.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,575 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -5.51%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,461 926 1,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 21.69% 26.62% 25.52%
Number of salaries quoted 900 675 1,285
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.69% -9.23%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -1 181 £60,000 +9.09% 42
Essex +1 178 £40,000 - 35
Cambridgeshire -2 153 £55,000 +18.92% 26
Suffolk +29 101 £45,000 -10.00% 8
Norfolk +2 88 £55,000 +48.65% 17
Bedfordshire -6 26 £37,500 -29.25% 25
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 92 (12.62%) SharePoint
2 42 (5.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.78%) WordPress
4 8 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.82%) CMS
6 3 (0.41%) SAS
7 2 (0.27%) Confluence
7 2 (0.27%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 70 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.82%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.23%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.27%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 176 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
2 127 (17.42%) Power Platform
3 118 (16.19%) Azure AI
4 104 (14.27%) Entra ID
5 90 (12.35%) AWS
6 76 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (6.31%) OneDrive
8 39 (5.35%) PowerApps
9 34 (4.66%) Power Automate
10 33 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 31 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 27 (3.70%) GitHub
13 24 (3.29%) GCP
14 21 (2.88%) SaaS
15 19 (2.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 17 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (2.19%) GitHub Copilot
18 14 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
18 14 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (9.33%) Firewall
2 45 (6.17%) DNS
3 41 (5.62%) VPN
4 31 (4.25%) DHCP
5 25 (3.43%) TCP/IP
6 17 (2.33%) WAN
7 14 (1.92%) Internet
8 13 (1.78%) LAN
8 13 (1.78%) Wireless
9 12 (1.65%) VoIP
10 11 (1.51%) VLAN
11 8 (1.10%) Network Security
12 7 (0.96%) Broadband
13 6 (0.82%) MQTT
13 6 (0.82%) WLAN
14 4 (0.55%) DMZ
14 4 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
15 3 (0.41%) SSL
16 2 (0.27%) L2TP
16 2 (0.27%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (15.36%) Power BI
2 106 (14.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 67 (9.19%) Tableau
4 59 (8.09%) MongoDB
5 34 (4.66%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (1.51%) Data Lake
7 11 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (0.96%) MySQL
9 6 (0.82%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.82%) Looker
9 6 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.69%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.41%) Metadata
11 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (2.19%) Git
2 12 (1.65%) JIRA
3 6 (0.82%) MLflow
4 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.55%) Selenium
6 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.27%) git-flow
7 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.27%) Yeoman
8 1 (0.14%) ERwin
8 1 (0.14%) JMeter
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 370 (50.75%) Social Skills
2 85 (11.66%) Finance
3 31 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (2.88%) Law
5 20 (2.74%) Marketing
6 14 (1.92%) Legal
6 14 (1.92%) Public Sector
7 13 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.23%) Retail
10 8 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (0.96%) Banking
12 6 (0.82%) Advertising
12 6 (0.82%) Multimedia
13 4 (0.55%) Games
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.55%) Music Industry
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 167 (22.91%) Analyst
2 148 (20.30%) Developer
3 128 (17.56%) Junior
4 125 (17.15%) Junior Analyst
5 83 (11.39%) IT Support
6 82 (11.25%) .NET Developer
7 71 (9.74%) Senior
8 66 (9.05%) Security Analyst
9 62 (8.50%) Data Analyst
10 60 (8.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 60 (8.23%) Ethical Hacker
10 60 (8.23%) Junior Data Analyst
10 60 (8.23%) Junior Security Analyst
11 45 (6.17%) IT Engineer
12 43 (5.90%) Support Engineer
13 37 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
14 34 (4.66%) Network Engineer
15 33 (4.53%) Lead
16 32 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
16 32 (4.39%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (15.64%) .NET
2 100 (13.72%) .NET Core
3 79 (10.84%) ASP.NET
4 78 (10.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 75 (10.29%) CSS
6 66 (9.05%) HTML
7 45 (6.17%) RESTful
8 39 (5.35%) React
9 33 (4.53%) Entity Framework
10 32 (4.39%) ML.NET
11 31 (4.25%) Node.js
12 29 (3.98%) Blazor
13 23 (3.16%) AngularJS
14 22 (3.02%) HTML5 Canvas
14 22 (3.02%) JSON
15 21 (2.88%) ASP.NET Web API
15 21 (2.88%) Vue
16 19 (2.61%) Microsoft Graph
16 19 (2.61%) SPFx
17 14 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.23%) Cyberattack
2 34 (4.66%) Driving Licence
3 29 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 22 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (1.10%) Product Ownership
10 7 (0.96%) Clustering
10 7 (0.96%) Digital TV
10 7 (0.96%) iPhone
11 6 (0.82%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.82%) Robotics
12 5 (0.69%) BBC
12 5 (0.69%) PKI
12 5 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 130 (17.83%) Windows
2 78 (10.70%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.47%) Android
4 17 (2.33%) Linux
5 16 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.51%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.55%) VMS
9 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (28.67%) Cybersecurity
2 180 (24.69%) AI
3 128 (17.56%) Agile
4 119 (16.32%) Mentoring
5 115 (15.78%) Business Intelligence
6 104 (14.27%) DevOps
7 83 (11.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 82 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (10.29%) CI/CD
10 71 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (8.50%) Machine Learning
12 60 (8.23%) Ethical Hacking
13 42 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 39 (5.35%) Computer Science
15 37 (5.08%) ITIL
15 37 (5.08%) Roadmaps
16 36 (4.94%) Multithreading
16 36 (4.94%) User Experience
17 35 (4.80%) Project Management
18 34 (4.66%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 236 (32.37%) SQL
2 148 (20.30%) C#
3 134 (18.38%) Python
4 69 (9.47%) JavaScript
5 56 (7.68%) PowerShell
6 45 (6.17%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.43%) PHP
8 15 (2.06%) Java
9 13 (1.78%) C++
10 9 (1.23%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.69%) R
12 4 (0.55%) Bash
12 4 (0.55%) Bicep
13 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.41%) Ruby
13 3 (0.41%) Rust
14 2 (0.27%) Scala
15 1 (0.14%) Go
15 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 253 (34.71%) Azure Certification
2 73 (10.01%) Degree
3 67 (9.19%) CompTIA Security+
4 61 (8.37%) CompTIA CySA+
5 60 (8.23%) CEH
6 43 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (5.21%) CCNA
7 38 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (4.53%) Security Cleared
9 29 (3.98%) Network+ Certification
10 27 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.88%) SC Cleared
12 10 (1.37%) CCNP
13 8 (1.10%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.96%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.82%) CISSP
15 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.29%) QA
2 21 (2.88%) SLA
3 20 (2.74%) GDPR
4 15 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.92%) NIST
6 12 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.37%) GRC
8 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.10%) NCSC
9 6 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.69%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.55%) PMO
12 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.14%) HL7
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 125 (17.15%) Active Directory
2 35 (4.80%) Hyper-V
3 29 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.16%) Docker
5 13 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.69%) vSphere
8 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 49 (6.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (4.53%) Kubernetes
3 22 (3.02%) Terraform
4 9 (1.23%) Ansible
5 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
5 3 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
5 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 525 (72.02%) Microsoft
2 144 (19.75%) ForeScout
3 51 (7.00%) Cisco
4 34 (4.66%) VMware
5 27 (3.70%) Apple
6 19 (2.61%) Adobe
6 19 (2.61%) Google
7 15 (2.06%) Databricks
7 15 (2.06%) Meraki
8 12 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.51%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.51%) SolarWinds
10 10 (1.37%) Veeam
11 9 (1.23%) Epicor
11 9 (1.23%) Facebook
12 7 (0.96%) Sophos
13 6 (0.82%) Aruba
13 6 (0.82%) Citrix
13 6 (0.82%) Dell
13 6 (0.82%) SonicWALL